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| My GC story, or what made GC so great. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 4 2005, 06:02 AM (87 Views) | |
| Bärsärk | Nov 4 2005, 06:02 AM Post #1 |
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What made GC so great? Yea... What was so special with that game? Well, I guess that depends on who you ask, I can only tell you why I thought it was so great. First I have to point out that I am what you can call slightly older then the average gamer, being born in the beginning of 1963 and all. Yea... Yea… I know, not so high age in Regnum, but overall not a majority online. No personal computers existed during my young years, so we where out playing Indians and cowboys and similar games. Sneaking up on each other with our fake guns and bow and arrows, we had lots of fun of course playing what we surly can call typical boys games. My first contact with computers came in school when I was around 17 years old, grey boring boxes with some kind of text based OS, similar to an early dos system. To me it was completely unintelligible and boring, complete uninteresting for a young guy with nothing else then girls in his head. That lack of interest lasted for lots of years; I didn't se any use for computers until I as an adult returned to school trying to get an engineer degree. Than I bought a used MAC to be able to do schoolwork at home, then I for the first time come in contact with videogames, simple games but fun! A couple of years later, 1998 to be precise I bought my first PC. Then it started... friends that already discovered the world of computer games started to give me loads of game copies, all kinds of games. And I started to try them out, some was fun some was not. Strategy games did I find boring, all you had to do was to mass produce units until you had more then the enemy, then charge... bahhh.. Boring... no room for small movements at all... After a while I get interested by space sims, I think the reason for that was that I grow up with the first three star war movies. Anyway I started to play such games, X-wing alliance, Freespace one and two and some other that I don’t remember. Rally sims like Collin McRae also made my gfx hot. Then back in the middle of 2000, when I was playing latest in the row of space sims, starlancer I think it was. A new Swedish made game was released and got good reviews in the gaming magazines; it was described like something completely new. A Strategy game without base building, a fast gameplay and so on. At that time I started to get a little feed up whit space sims, to be honest they are all the same, fly around in a black space shooting at other space ships... So I decided to give this new and amazing strategy game a chance, I installed the demo without any great hope, and after all I had not found strategy games fun at all before. So later that evening when my child’s had gone to bed I fired it up and slowly made my way through the tutorial and the first mission, well I was not that impressed and I was tired, so I turned it of and went to bed. The next evening I had nothing to do so I went on with mission no 2, thinking well... I give it a half hour, if it doesn’t get any better I uninstall it and turn on the TV instead. Later that night... or maybe I should say morning... I leaned back in the chair, with my eyes locked to the monitor. Thinking... WOW.... man what a game... WOW... Later that day I went to the closest town 55 kilometers one way in my car, to a game shop that had the game on its shelf’s and bought it. The rest of that summer I spent in front of my computer playing Ground Control, I went through the single missions a couple of times completely amazed over the many different ways you could solve these missions. So unlike any other strategy game I had tried before, a virtual version of the childhood game cowboys and Indians, with all the sneaking and tricks that I remember in there. To me it was a fantastic game that kept me glued to the monitor for hours day after day screaming for more. Later when the expansion pack Dark Conspiracy was announced, I stood first in line to buy it. I think I was one of few that loved to play that to, and soon I had played through DC to a couple of times and still wanting more. The game was still so fun that instead to put it on the shelf, I started to download all custom maps I could find with my slow 56K connection. Not everyone was good but I played them all anyway, I specially remember one map maker that made really good ones. Ninja Prime, that guy knew how to do good maps. One year had gone and I still wanted more, so I turned my eyes toward the multiplayer part of the game. I did that despite the fact that earlier multiplayer visits in other games had discouraged me from it, but I wanted to play GC and MP was all that were left for me to try. The first visit in the lobby where maybe not so encouraging, there was lots of loudmouths there, screaming insults at each other. It felt like be in a henhouse with to many cocks fighting each other, bragging and tense their virtual muscles to get the hens (read noobs) attention. Not my cup of coffee I tell you, so I concentrated on the games instead, mostly the drop-in with were a simple way to get a game without having to visit the lobby. My first battle ended in a complete defeat, I got my as whipped bad, so bad I couldn’t sit down for a week… but it was fun, so fun… After a while I learned to fight back, I still got whipped but now I at least could get some kills before my forces where obliterated. Now was the time to enter the lobby, but I wanted to be unknown so I created a new nick, Bärsärk was born, to my surprise that had the opposite effect. I had hardly joined the lobby before a couple of the loudmouths started to talk to me, wanting me to join there clan??? What the f*** Well the best way to avoid being one of the victims of the loudmouths must be to join them I thought, and what do you know that showed out to be true. So now I was a member of the notorious SSC clan, playing long sides with Kamikaze, Loc Dog and not to forget our own Xeralito and it was fun. There I also did meet the guy that later become my best online friend and also the one that later convinced me to join Regnum a year later when SSC did fall apart, known to us veterans as Ripper, one of few online friends that I actually have had pleasure to meet in person to. From SSC came Ripper, Kartex, Me, Rommel and Xeralito to Regnum, where we did meet mature guys, no loudmouths only pleasant people that welcomed us all with open arms. Only to mention some of them; Zero, Major, Timeline, DKutter, Falcon, Ellu, Crystine, Madmaz and many more. Together we continued to play a game that was too good to be put away, countless of great battles during a long time have been fought together with great friends. What more can you want from a game? It gave me more then 3 years of fun, both offline and online, how many other games last that long? Not many, that’s for sure. Even today I sometimes put my GC disk in the reader to play, sadly the lobby most of the time is empty, even during Fridays lately. But this I can tell you, if there is one game that not will be uninstalled from my computer, then that game is Ground Control. It has deserved its honoury place on my hard drive and in my shelf, giving me so much enjoyment during so long time. So I guess that all this together, great single player missions, great multi player and great people to play with, was what made it so great to me. It’s not likely that I ever will find such a game once more; GC2 clearly wasn’t close to that at all. In my book Ground Control is the best game ever made, and probably it will stay there for a long time yet. Love you all guys, Bärsärk. |
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| Timeline | Nov 4 2005, 06:09 AM Post #2 |
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GC1 has been a special game for most of us, different stories but the same touch. Today is friday, meeting. My router want not me play active games GC1 but as last friday I will be anycase online in the lobby to salute you all. |
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| [RI]M1A1Abram(USA) | Nov 4 2005, 10:45 AM Post #3 |
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i love GC1! i finally got it dled! but i cant play tonight with u guys because i will be flying to Mexico. |
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| (RI)Eldred(HUN) | Nov 4 2005, 12:12 PM Post #4 |
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hmm you know guys i got avp2 and it was made in 2001 and it is still played by 300 people or 200 and its cool im srry for gc1 couse thats good but gc2 is bad couse unbalanced units . Man but gc1 was a new thing in that time since no colleting materials hmm wonder what would be the mp like in gc2 if they would just followed the gc1 things and not mess it up <_< |
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| Ravager | Nov 4 2005, 01:39 PM Post #5 |
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Basark, currently, forces ARE fighting in GC2, but are also standing by for "project ice" if you know what i mean. |
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| RI-ZeRo | Nov 5 2005, 02:22 PM Post #6 |
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LeaDeR AnD FoUnDeR Of ReGNuM-IrAe
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Man, veru nice all you wrote. I think that many of us just started with this game a bit like you, and we all get addicted to it. 5 years already passed and we still play it, well only on fridays but always with great entusiasme. This is the best game ever, 4me at the least. One of this days i have to put also mi GC story in here, but only wen i get time to do it, who knows if during mi vacacion i do it in the spare time that mi woman might give t to me, hehehehehehe. |
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| GC ilter | Nov 6 2005, 07:00 PM Post #7 |
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damn. how i miss the days of gc1. |
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